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J. 0. WOODS. INHALER AND RESPIRATOR.

No. 427,247. Patented May.6, l890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JUSTUS O. \VOODS, OF NEW V YGRK, N. Y.

INHALER AND RE'SPIRATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 427,247, dated May 6, 1890.

* Application filed May 11, 1889. Serial No. 310,430. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JUsTUs O. WooDs, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city, county, and State of New York, have invented and made a new and useful Hygienic Respirator and Throat and Lung Protector; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description and specificationof the same, reference being had to the drawings forming part of the same.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and efiective apparatus, to be placed and properly secured in the mouth and under the nose, to charge or impregnate the air to be breathed through the nostrils of the person using it with medicated vapor, for curative action upon the internal membranes and blood of the body, and also to prevent, incidentally, the injurious action of the vibrations of the throat-fibers, which is caused by snoring.

Many medicines are best passed directly to the lungs and the blood by inhalation rather than through the stomach, which they greatly disturb. If the medicament is for the throat and lungs especially, it is best drawn to them directly by inhalation. Respiration should be through the nostrils and not through the mouth, as the nostrils are furnished with fine hairs and a mucous coating, which catch the fine unwholesome particles from the air in breathing. IVhile sleeping, the muscles of the jaws are relaxed and the mouth opens slightly, so that the sleeper breathes through it entirely, and the fine unwholesome particles floating in the air are drawn in, so that the mouth and throat become dry and there is produced the annoying phenomenon of snoring, which injures the fine fibers of the throat by the violent vibrations.

My invention consists in certain parts and combinations of parts fully set forth and claimed at the end of this schedule.

In order that persons skilled in the art' may understand, construct, and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it, referring to the drawings, in Which- Figure 1 represents the head of a person with my medicinal respirator applied over the mouth by bands which pass around the head and under the chin; and it also shows in dotted lines a non-respirator. Fig. 2 represents a thin flexible sheet of celluloid or other suitable material, with a light elastic thread or hook attached to it, to be placed in the month between the lips and the teeth and held in place by securing it to the teeth or the medical respirator-bag. Fig. 3 is a partial front View of a nose and mouthwith the position which the celluloid plate (shown in Fig. 3) assumes when in the mouth, (shown in dotted lines;) and Fig. 4 represents a front view of the respirator bag or pockets, and is fitted with vessels for holding medicaments.

A is the head of a person with my respirator and non-respirator applied to it.

B is the nose.

0 is the mouth.

D is a respirator-bag, and is fitted with a vessel or vessels for holding medicaments.

E is an elastic strap, which buckles around the head above the ears, and to which is attached the respirator-bag. F is a similar strap, to which is attached at the bottom side the respirator-bag, and buckles about the head or neck or below the ears. G is an elastic strap, which stretches under the chin. All these straps serve to secure the respiratorbag in place over the mouth.

This respirator bag or pocket D is composed of longitudinal strips and vertical strips, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, the said vertical strips crossing the longitudinal strips and forming a pocket to hold medicaments.

H is a thin flexible piece of non-absorbent material-such as rubber or celluloid-placed in the mouth when breathing through the nose alone is desired. This piece H is rounded off at the top, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, so as to fit between the lips and teeth, and a fine elastic thread or wire a is fastened to it. To this thread is attached a hook or loop I) for the purpose of securing it to the teeth or respirator-bag D. By these devices I secure perfect medication of the pure airinhaled and prevent the vitiated breath from affecting the medicament when exhaled.

In operation, the respirator bag being placed as shown in Fig. 1, with the strip H placed in the mouth and secured to said bag or teeth by means of the hook or wire loop, and the dry or liquid medicament placed in the respiratonbag, the mouth being closed by piece H, the user must breathe the vapor of the medicament through the nose.

Having now fully described my invention and the manner in Which I have embodied it, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The hygienic respirator and lung and throat protector consisting of the respiratorbag composed of the longitudinal strips and the verticalstrips crossing said longitudinal strips and forming a pocket to hold a medicament, and the straps E, F, and G, whereby the bag is held to the head, and the flexible non-absorbent mouth-piece placed in the mouth between the lips and the teeth to pre- WVitnesses:

W. L. BENNEM, JAMES M. HIoKs. 

